Linkin Park

Linkin Park is an American rock band from AgouraHills, California. Formed in 1996, the band rose to in-ternational fame with their debut album Hybrid Theory(2000), which was certified Diamond by the RIAA in2005 and multi-platinum in several other countries.[1]Their following studio album Meteora continued theband’s success, topping the Billboard 200 album chart in2003, and was followed by extensive touring and charitywork around the world.[2] In 2003, MTV2 named LinkinPark the sixth-greatest band of the music video era andthe third-best of the new millennium.[3] Billboard rankedLinkin Park No. 19 on the Best Artists of the Decadechart.[4] In 2012, the band was voted as the greatest artistof the 2000s in a Bracket Madness poll on VH1.[5] In2014, the band was declared as the Biggest Rock Band inthe World Right Now by Kerrang.[6][7]

Having adapted numetal and rapmetal to a radio-friendlyyet densely layered style in Hybrid Theory and Mete-ora,[8][9][10] the band explored other genres in their nextstudio album, Minutes to Midnight (2007).[11][12] The al-bum topped the Billboard charts and had the third-bestdebut week of any album that year.[13][14] The band con-tinued to explore a wider variation of musical types intheir fourth album, A Thousand Suns (2010), layeringtheir music with more electronic sounds and beats. Theirfifth album, Living Things (2012), combines musical ele-ments from all of their previous records. Their sixth andmost recent album, The Hunting Party (2014), returnedto a heavier rock sound. The band has collaborated withseveral other artists, most notably with rapper Jay-Z intheir mashup EP Collision Course, and many others onthe remix albums Reanimation and Recharged.[9] LinkinPark has sold over 68 million albums worldwide and haswon two Grammy Awards.[15][16][17]

1 History

1.1 Early years (1996–2000)

Linkin Park was founded by three high school friends:Mike Shinoda, Rob Bourdon, and Brad Delson.[18] Thethree attended Agoura High School in Agoura Hills, Cal-ifornia, a suburb of Los Angeles. After graduating fromhigh school, the three began to take their musical interestsmore seriously, recruiting JoeHahn, Dave “Phoenix” Far-rell, and Mark Wakefield to perform in their band, Xero.Though limited in resources, the band began recordingand producing songs within Shinoda’s makeshift bed-

room studio in 1996, resulting in a four-track demo tape,entitled Xero.[18][19] Tensions and frustration within theband grew however after they failed to land a recorddeal.[18] The lack of success and stalemate in progressprompted Wakefield, at that time the band’s vocalist, toleave the band in search of other projects.[18][19] Farrellalso left to tour with Tasty Snax, a Christian punk andSka band.[20][21]

After spending a considerable time searching for Wake-field’s replacement, Xero recruited Arizona vocalist,Chester Bennington, whowas recommended by JeffBlue,the vice president of Zomba Music in March 1999.[22][23]Bennington, formerly of a post-grunge band by the nameof Grey Daze, became a standout among applicants be-cause of the dynamic in his singing style.[18] The bandthen agreed on changing its name from Xero to HybridTheory; the newborn vocal chemistry between Shinodaand Bennington helped revive the band, inciting themto work on new material.[18] In 1999 the band releaseda self-titled extended play, which they circulated acrossinternet chat-rooms and forums with the help of an on-line 'street team'.[24][25] The band’s renaissance culmi-nated with a change in name; from Hybrid Theory, theband once again changed its name, this time to LinkinPark, a play on and homage to Santa Monica’s LincolnPark.[18] The band initially wanted to utilize the name“Lincoln Park”, however they changed it to “Linkin” toacquire the internet domain “linkinpark.com”.[26] How-ever, despite these changes, the band still struggled to signa record deal. After facing numerous rejections fromseveral major record labels, Linkin Park turned to JeffBlue for additional help. After failing to catch WarnerBros. Records on three previous reviews, Jeff Blue, nowthe vice president of Warner Bros. Records, helped theband sign a deal with the company in 1999. The bandreleased its breakthrough album, Hybrid Theory, the fol-lowing year.[22]

1.2 Hybrid Theory and Reanimation (2000–02)

Main articles: Hybrid Theory and ReanimationLinkin Park released Hybrid Theory on October

24, 2000.[27][28] The album, which represented half adecade’s worth of the band’s work, was edited by DonGilmore.[18] Hybrid Theory was a massive commercialsuccess; it sold more than 4.8 million copies duringits debut year, earning it the status of best-selling al-bum of 2001, while singles such as "Crawling" and

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The Linkin Park logo used from the release of Hybrid Theory tothe release of Minutes to Midnight.

"One Step Closer" established themselves as staplesamong alternative rock radio play lists during the year.[20]Additionally, other singles from the album were fea-tured in films such as Dracula 2000, Little Nicky, andValentine.[20] Hybrid Theory won a Grammy Award forBest Hard Rock Performance for the song “Crawling”and was nominated for two other Grammy Awards: BestNew Artist and Best Rock Album.[29] MTV awarded theband their Best Rock Video and Best Direction awardsfor "In the End".[18] Through the winning of the Grammyfor Best Hard Rock Performance,Hybrid Theory’s overallsuccess had catapulted the band into mainstream success.During this time, Linkin Park received many invitationsto perform on many high-profile tours and concerts in-cluding Ozzfest, Family Values Tour, and KROQAlmostAcoustic Christmas.[20][30] The band worked with Jes-sica Sklar to found their official fan club and street team,“Linkin Park Underground”, in November 2001.[31][32]Linkin Park also formed its own tour, Projekt Revolu-tion, which featured other notable artists such as CypressHill, Adema, and Snoop Dogg.[22] Within a year’s stretch,Linkin Park had performed at over 320 concerts.[18] Theexperiences and performances of the precocious bandwere documented in its first DVD, Frat Party at thePankake Festival, which debuted in November 2001.Now reunited with former bassist Phoenix, the band be-gan work on a remix album, dubbed Reanimation, whichwould include works from Hybrid Theory and non-albumtracks.[20] Reanimation debuted on July 30, 2002, featur-ing the likes of Black Thought, Jonathan Davis, AaronLewis, andmany others.[33] Reanimation claimed the sec-ond spot on the Billboard 200, and sold nearly 270,000copies during its debut week.[34] Hybrid Theory is also inthe RIAA's Top 100 Albums.[35]

1.3 Meteora (2002–04)

Main article: Meteora (album)

Following the success of Hybrid Theory and Reanima-tion, Linkin Park spent a significant amount of time tour-ing around the United States. The band members be-gan to work on new material amidst its saturated sched-ule, spending a sliver of their free time in their tourbus’ studio.[36] The band officially announced the pro-duction of a new studio album in December 2002, re-vealing its new work was inspired by the rocky regionof Meteora in Greece, where numerous monasteries havebeen built on top of the rocks.[37] Meteora features a mix-ture of the band’s previous nu metal and rapcore styleswith newer innovative effects, including the induction ofa shakuhachi (a Japanese flute made of bamboo) andother instruments.[18] Linkin Park’s second album de-buted on March 25, 2003 and instantly earned worldwiderecognition,[18] going to No. 1 in the US and UK, andNo. 2 in Australia.[19]

Meteora sold more than 800,000 copies during its firstweek, and it ranked as the best selling album onthe Billboard charts at the time.[38] The album’s sin-gles, including "Somewhere I Belong", "Breaking theHabit", "Faint", and "Numb", received significant radioattention.[39] By October 2003,Meteora sold nearly threemillion copies.[40] The album’s success allowed LinkinPark to form another Projekt Revolution, which featuredother bands and artists including Mudvayne, Blindside,and Xzibit.[18] Additionally, Metallica invited LinkinPark to play at the Summer Sanitarium Tour 2003, whichincluded well-known acts such as Limp Bizkit, Mudvayneand Deftones.[41] The band released an album and DVD,titled Live in Texas, which featured some audio and videotracks from the band’s performances in Texas during thetour.[18] In early 2004, Linkin Park started a world tourtitled the Meteora World Tour. Supporting bands on thetour included Hoobastank, P.O.D., Story of the Year andPia.[42]

Meteora earned the band multiple awards and honors.The band won the MTV awards for Best Rock Video for“Somewhere I Belong” and the Viewer’s Choice Awardfor “Breaking the Habit”.[43] Linkin Park also receivedsignificant recognition during the 2004 Radio MusicAwards, winning the Artist of the Year and Song of theYear (“Numb”) awards.[43] Although Meteora was notnearly as successful asHybrid Theory, it was the third bestselling album in the United States during 2003.[20] Theband spent the first few months of 2004 touring aroundthe world, first with the third Projekt Revolution tour, andlater several European concerts.[20] At the same time, theband’s relationship with Warner Bros. Records was dete-riorating rapidly on account of several trust and financialissues.[44] After months of feuding, the band finally ne-gotiated a deal in December 2005.[45]

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1.4 Side projects (2004–06)

Main articles: Collision Course (album), Fort Minor andDead by Sunrise

Following Meteora's success, the band worked on manyside projects.[46] Bennington appeared on DJ Lethal’s“State of the Art” and other work with Dead by Sun-rise, while Shinoda did work with Depeche Mode.[20] In2004, the band began to work with Jay-Z to produce an-other remix album, titled Collision Course. The album,which featured intermixed lyrics and background tracksfrom both artists’ previous albums, debuted in November2004. Shinoda also formed Fort Minor as a side project.With the aid of Jay-Z, Fort Minor released its debut al-bum, The Rising Tied, to critical acclaim.[47][48]

Linkin Park also participated in numerous charitableevents, most notably raised money to benefit victims ofHurricane Charley in 2004 and later Hurricane Katrina in2005.[20] The band donated $75,000 to the Special Oper-ations Warrior Foundation in March 2004.[49] They alsohelped relief efforts for the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunamivictims by staging several charity concerts and settingup an additional fund called Music for Relief.[50] Mostnotably, however, the band participated at Live 8, a se-ries of charitable benefit concerts set up to raise globalawareness.[51] Alongside Jay-Z, the band performed onLive 8’s stage in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a globalaudience.[51] The band would later be reunited with Jay-Z at the Grammy Award Ceremony 2006, during whichthey performed “Numb/Encore”, en route to winning aGrammy for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration.[52] They werejoined on stage by Paul McCartney who added versesfrom the song "Yesterday". They would later go on toplay at the 2006 Summer Sonic music festival, which washosted by Metallica in Japan.[53]

1.5 Minutes to Midnight (2006–08)

Main article: Minutes to Midnight (album)Linkin Park returned to the recording studios in 2006 towork on new material. To produce the album, the bandchose producer Rick Rubin. Despite initially stating thealbum would debut sometime in 2006, the album wasdelayed until 2007.[11] The band had recorded thirty tofifty songs in August 2006, when Shinoda stated the al-bum was halfway completed.[54] Bennington later addedthat the new album would stray away from its previousnu metal sound.[55] Warner Bros. Records officially an-nounced that the band’s third studio album, titledMinutesto Midnight, would be released on May 15, 2007 in theUnited States.[56] After spending fourteen months work-ing on the album, the band members opted to further re-fine their album by removing five of the original seventeentracks. The album’s title, a reference to the DoomsdayClock, foreshadowed the band’s new lyrical themes.[57]Minutes to Midnight sold over 625,000 copies in its first

Linkin Park performing at 2007’s Novarock Festival

week, making it one of the most successful debut weekalbums in recent years. The album also took the top spoton the Billboard Charts.[14]

The album’s first single, "What I've Done", was releasedon April 2, and premiered on MTV and Fuse within thesame week.[58] The single was acclaimed by listeners, be-coming the top-ranked song on the Billboard's ModernRock Tracks andMainstreamRock Tracks charts.[59] Thesong is also used in soundtrack for the 2007 action film,Transformers. Mike Shinoda was also featured on theStyles of Beyond song “Second to None”, which was alsoincluded in the film. Later in the year, the band wonthe “Favorite Alternative Artist” in the American MusicAwards.[60] The band also saw success with the rest ofthe albums singles, "Bleed It Out", "Shadow of the Day","Given Up", and "Leave Out All the Rest", which werereleased throughout 2007 and early 2008. The band alsocollaborated with Busta Rhymes on his single "We MadeIt", which was released on April 29.[61]

Linkin Park embarked on a large world tour titled “Min-utes to Midnight World Tour”. The band promoted thealbum’s release by forming their fourth Projekt Revo-lution tour in the United States which included manymusical acts like My Chemical Romance, Taking BackSunday, HIM, Placebo, and many others. They alsoplayed numerous shows in Europe, Asia, and Australiawhich included a performance at Live Earth Japan on July7, 2007.[62] and headlining Download Festival in Don-ington Park, England and Edgefest in Downsview Park,Toronto, Canada. The band completed touring on itsfourth Projekt Revolution tour before taking up an Arenatour around the United Kingdom, visiting Nottingham,Sheffield and Manchester, before finishing on a doublenight at the O2 arena in London. Bennington stated thatLinkin Park plans to release a follow-up album to Min-utes to Midnight.[63] However, he stated the band will firstembark on a United States tour to gather inspiration forthe album.[63] Linkin Park embarked on another ProjektRevolution tour in 2008. This was the first time a Pro-jekt Revolution tour was held in Europe with three shows

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in Germany and one in the United Kingdom. A Pro-jekt Revolution tour was also held in the United Stateswhich featured Chris Cornell, The Bravery, Ashes Di-vide, Street Drum Corps and many others. Linkin Parkfinished the tour with a final show in Texas. Mike Shinodaannounced a live CD/DVD titledRoad to Revolution: Liveat Milton Keynes, which is a live video recording from theProjekt Revolution gig at theMilton Keynes Bowl on June29, 2008, which was officially released on November 24,2008.[64]

1.6 A Thousand Suns (2008–11)

Main article: A Thousand SunsIn May 2009, Linkin Park announced they were work-

Linkin Park performing at Sonisphere Festival in Finland.

ing on a fourth studio album, which was planned to bereleased in 2010. Shinoda told IGN that the new albumwould be 'genre-busting,' while building off of elementsinMinutes to Midnight.[65] He also mentioned that the al-bum would be more experimental and “hopefully morecutting-edge.”[66] Bennington also addressed the mediato confirm that Rick Rubin would return to produce thenew album. The band later revealed the album would becalledAThousand Suns.[67]While working on the new al-bum, Linkin Park worked with successful film composerHans Zimmer to produce the score for Transformers: Re-venge of the Fallen.[68] The band released a single for themovie, titled "New Divide". Joe Hahn created a musicvideo for the song, which featured clips from the film.[69]On June 22, Linkin Park played a short set in WestwoodVillage after the premier of the movie.[70] After complet-ing work for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, theband returned to the studio to finalize their album.[71]

On April 26, the band released an app for the iPhone,iPod Touch, and iPad, a game called 8-Bit Rebellion! Itfeatured the band as playable characters, and a new songcalled “Blackbirds” which was unlockable by beating thegame. The songwas also later released as an iTunes bonustrack on A Thousand Suns.A Thousand Suns was released on September 14. Thealbum’s first single, "The Catalyst", was released on Au-gust 2. The band promoted their new album by launch-ing a concert tour, which started in Los Angeles on

September 7.[72][73][74] Linkin Park also relied on MyS-pace to promote their album, releasing two additionalsongs, "Waiting for the End" and “Blackout” on Septem-ber 8.[75][76][77][78] Furthermore, a documentary about thealbum’s production, titled Meeting of A Thousand Suns,was available for streaming on the band’s MySpace page.On August 31, 2010, it was announced that the bandwould perform the single live for the first time at the 2010MTV Video Music Awards on September 12, 2010.[79]The venue of the debut live performance of the singlewas Griffith Observatory, an iconic location used in Hol-lywood movies.[80][81][82] “Waiting for the End” was re-leased as the second single of A Thousand Suns.Linkin Park reached No.8 in Billboard Social 50, a chartof the most active artists on the world’s leading socialnetworking sites.[83] In other Billboard Year-End charts,the band reached No.92 in the “Top Artists” chart,[84] aswell as A Thousand Suns reaching No.53 in the Year-Endchart of the Billboard Top 200 albums[85] and No.7 in the2010 Year-End Rock Albums, and “The Catalyst” reach-ing No.40 in the Year-End Rock Songs chart.[86]

The band was nominated for six Billboard Awards in2011 for Top Duo or Group, Best Rock Album for AThousand Suns, Top Rock Artist, Top Alternative Artist,Top Alternative Song for “Waiting for the End” and TopAlternative Album for A Thousand Suns, but did not winany award.[87] The band charted in numerous BillboardYear-End charts in 2011. The band was No.39 in theTop Artists Chart,[88] No.84 in the Billboard 200 Artistschart,[89]No.11 in the Social 50Chart,[90] No.6 in the TopRock Artists Chart,[91] No.9 in the Rock Songs ArtistsChart,[92] No.16 in the Rock Albums Chart,[93] No.4 inthe Hard Rock Albums Chart,[94] and No.7 in the Alter-native Songs Chart.[95]

1.7 Living Things andRecharged (2011–13)

Main articles: Living Things (Linkin Park album) andRechargedIn July 2011, Bennington told Rolling Stone that LinkinPark aims to produce a new album every eighteenmonths,and that he would be shocked if a new album did not comeout in 2012. He later revealed in another interview inSeptember 2011 that the band was still in the beginningphases of the next album, saying “We just kind of began.We like to keep the creative juices flowing, so we try tokeep that going all the time...we like the direction thatwe're going in.”[96] Later, on March 28, 2012, Shinodaconfirmed that the band is filming amusic video for "BurnIt Down".[97][98] Joe Hahn directed the video.[99] Shinodaspoke to Co.Create about the album’s art, saying that itwill “blow them [the fans] away...the average person isnot going to be able to look at it and go, I understand thatthat’s completely new, like not just the image but the waythey made the image is totally new. So there’s going to bethat.”[100]

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The Linkin Park logo used since the release of Minutes to Mid-night.

OnApril 15, 2012, Shinoda announced that Living Thingswould be the title of Linkin Park’s fifth album.[101] Shin-oda stated that they chose the title Living Things becausethe album is more about people, personal interactions,and it is far more personal than their previous albums.[102]The band promoted the album on the 2012 edition ofthe Honda Civic Tour, with co-headliners Incubus. Theband performed “Burn It Down” at 2012 Billboard Mu-sic Awards. On May 24, the band released the musicvideo for “Burn It Down” and debuted "Lies Greed Mis-ery", another song from Living Things, on BBC Radio 1."Powerless", the twelfth and closing track of the album,was featured in the closing credits of the film AbrahamLincoln: Vampire Hunter.[103]

Living Things sold over 220,000 copies during its de-but week, ranking No. 1 on the US Albums Charts.[104]Linkin Park’s single, "Castle of Glass", was nominatedfor 'Best Song in a Game' at the 2012 Spike Video GameAwards. The band also performed at the award cere-mony on December 7, but lost the award to “Cities” byBeck.[105] Linkin Park also played at the Soundwave mu-sic festival in Australia, where they shared the stage withMetallica, Paramore, Slayer and Sum 41.[106]

On August 10, 2013, the band collaborated with Ameri-can musician Steve Aoki to record the song "A Light ThatNever Comes" for Linkin Park’s online puzzle-actiongame LP Recharge (short for Linkin Park Recharge),which was launched on Facebook and the official LPRecharge website on September 12, 2013. On the dayof the game’s release, Linkin Park made a post on theirFacebook explaining that the song used to promote thegame would be included on a new remix album, entitledRecharged, which was released on October 29, 2013 onCD, vinyl, and digital download. Similar to Reanimation,the album features remixes of ten of the songs from Liv-

ing Things, with contributions from other artists, such asRyu of Styles of Beyond, Pusha T, Datsik, KillSonik, BunB, Money Mark, and Rick Rubin.[107][108] The band alsoworked on the soundtrack for the film Mall, which wasdirected by Joe Hahn.[109]

1.8 The Hunting Party (2013–present)

Main article: The Hunting Party (album)In an interviewwith Fuse, Shinoda confirmed that Linkin

Bennington and Shinoda performing live in 2014.

Park had begun recording their sixth studio album inMay2013.[110] The band released the first single from their up-coming album, titled, "Guilty All the Same" on March6, 2014 through Shazam.[111] The single was later re-leased on the following day by Warner Bros. Recordsand debut at No. 28 on the US Billboard Rock Air-play charts before peaking at No. 1 on the MainstreamRock charts in the following weeks.[112][113] Shortly af-ter the single’s release, the band revealed their sixth al-bum would be titled The Hunting Party. The album wasproduced by Shinoda and Delson, who wanted to exploremusical elements fromHybrid Theory and the band’s ear-lier material.[114] Shinoda commented the album is a “90sstyle of rock record.” He elaborated, “It’s a Rock record.It’s loud and it’s Rock, but not in the sense of what you'veheard before, which is more like '90s Hardcore-Punk-Thrash.'[115] The album includes musical contributionsfrom Rakim, Page Hamilton of Helmet, Tom Morelloof Rage Against the Machine, and Daron Malakian ofSystem of a Down.[116][117] The Hunting Party was re-leased on June 13, 2014 in most countries, and later re-leased in the United States on June 17.[118]

Linkin Park performed at Download Festival on June14, 2014, where they played their debut album, HybridTheory, in its entirety.[17][119][120] Linkin Park headlinedRock am Ring and Rock im Park in 2014, along withMetallica, Kings of Leon, and IronMaiden.[121][122] Theyalso headlined with Iron Maiden again at the GreenfieldFestival in July.[123] On June 22, Linkin Park made an un-scheduled headline appearance at the VansWarped Tour,where they played with members of Issues, The DevilWears Prada, A Day To Remember, Yellowcard, Breathe

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Carolina, Finch, and Machine Gun Kelly.[124] In January2015, the band embarked on a tour to promote the releaseof The Hunting Party, consisting of 17 concerts acrossthe United States and Canada. The tour was canceledafter only three concerts when Bennington injured hisankle.[125][126] On May 9, Linkin Park performed at thefirst edition of Rock in Rio USA, in direct support forMetallica.[127]

On November 9, 2014 MTV Europe named LinkinPark the “Best Rock” act of 2014 at their annual musicawards ceremony.[128] The band won the 'Best RockBand' and 'Best Live Act' titles of 2014 on Loudwire'sMusic Awards.[129] Revolver ranked The Hunting Partyas the fourth best album of 2014.[130]

Linkin Park collaborated with Steve Aoki on the song"Darker Than Blood" for Aoki’s album Neon Future II,which was released in May 2015.[131] The first previewof the song came during Aoki’s performance on February28, 2015 at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, Illinois.[132]The song was debuted on Twitch.tv on April 13 and re-leased on April 14.[133]

In an interview with AltWire onMay 4, Shinoda reflectedon The Hunting Party and commented on Linkin Park’sfuture, stating; “I'm really happy with the reaction fromThe Hunting Party, and I think we're ready to move some-where new on the next album, which will be coming [in2016]".[134]

For the second time, the band decided to perform theirdebut album “Hybrid Theory” in its entirety in Los An-geles, the band’s hometown, in honor of celebrating thealbum’s 15 year anniversary.[135]

2 Charity

On January 19, 2010, Linkin Park released a new songtitled "Not Alone" as part of a compilation from Musicfor Relief called Download to Donate for Haiti in supportof the Haiti Earthquake crisis. On February 10, 2010,Linkin Park released the official music video for the songon their homepage. The single itself was released on Oc-tober 21, 2011.On January 11, 2011, an updated version of Downloadto Donate for Haiti was launched, called Download toDonate for Haiti V2.0, with more songs to download.For the updated compilation, the band released KeatonHashimoto’s remix of “The Catalyst” from the “LinkinPark featuring YOU” contest.[136]

Shinoda designed two T-shirts, in which the proceeds willgo to Music for Relief to help the victims of the 2011Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami disasters.[137][138] Mu-sic for Relief released Download to Donate: Tsunami Re-lief Japan, another compilation of songs, in which theproceeds will go to Save the Children.[139] The band re-leased the song titled as “IsshoNi”, meaning “we're in this

together”, on March 22, 2011 via Download to Donate:Tsunami Relief Japan.In the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, Linkin Park played atClub Nokia during the “Music for Relief: Concert forthe Philippines” in Los Angeles, California, and raiseddonations for victims. The show was broadcast on AXSTV on February 15. Other artists during the show in-cluded The Offspring, Bad Religion, Heart, and TheFilharmonic.[140][141]

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Both Hybrid Theory and Meteora combine thealternative metal,[10][142] nu metal,[143][144][145] andrap rock[144][146] sound with influences and elementsfrom hip hop, alternative rock,[147] and electronica, utiliz-ing programming and synthesizers. William Ruhlmannfrom AllMusic regarded it as “a Johnny-come-lately toan already overdone musical style,”[148] whereas RollingStone described their song "Breaking the Habit" as“risky, beautiful art”.[149]

In Minutes to Midnight the band experimented with theirestablished sound and drew influences from a wider andmore varied range of genres and styles, a process Los An-geles Times compares to a stage in U2's work.[12] In it,only two of the songs feature rapping, and the majorityof the album can be considered alternative rock.[150][151]NME magazine’s Dan Silver criticized the band’s ap-proach, calling it the “sound of a band trying and failingto forge a new identity”, and referring to the song “HandsHeld High”, a song about terrorist attacks and war, as “farand away the funniest thing you will hear all year”.[152]

The vocal interplay between Chester Bennington andMike Shinoda plays as a major part within Linkin Park’smusic, with Bennington being the lead vocalist and Shin-oda as the rapping vocalist. On Linkin Park’s third album,Minutes to Midnight, Shinoda sings lead vocals on “In Be-tween”, “Hands Held High”, and on the B-side “No RoadsLeft”. On numerous songs from band’s fourth album, AThousand Suns, such as the album’s four singles ("TheCatalyst", "Waiting for the End", "Burning in the Skies","Iridescent"), both Shinoda and Bennington sing. Onmost of the record’s tracks, the band notably used elec-tronic drumbeats along with outro drumbeats. The albumhas been regarded as a turning point in the band’s musicalcareer, having a stronger emphasis on electronica.[153][154]James Montgomery, of MTV, compared the record toRadiohead's Kid A,[155] while Jordy Kasko of Review,Rinse, Repeat likened the album to both Kid A and PinkFloyd's landmark album The Dark Side of the Moon.[156]Shinoda stated that he and the other band members weredeeply influenced by Chuck D and Public Enemy. Heelaborated: “Public Enemy were very three-dimensionalwith their records because although they seemed political,there was a whole lot of other stuff going on in there too.

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It made me think how three-dimensional I wanted ourrecord to be without imitating them of course, and showwhere we were at creatively”.[157] One of the record’spolitical elements is its samples of notable speeches byAmerican political figures.[158]

Their fifth album, Living Things, is also an electronic-heavy album, but includes other influences, resulting ina harder sound by comparison.[159][160] The band returnsto a heavier sound, compared to their last three albums,on The Hunting Party, being described as an alternativemetal and hard rock album.[161][162]

Linkin Park’s influences include Nine Inch Nails,Deftones, The Roots and Aphex Twin.[163]

4 Legacy and influence

Alternative logo used onMinutes to Midnight.

Main article: List of awards and nominations receivedby Linkin Park

Linkin Park has sold more than 68 million records.[15]The group’s first studio albumHybrid Theory is one of thebest-selling albums in the US (10 million copies shipped)and worldwide (27 million copies sold).[164] Billboard es-timates that Linkin Park earned US$5 million betweenMay 2011 andMay 2012, making them the 40th-highest-paid musical artist.[165]

In 2003, MTV2 named Linkin Park the sixth-greatestband of the music video era and the third-best of thenew millennium.[3] Billboard ranked Linkin Park No. 19on the Best Artists of the Decade chart.[4] The band wasrecently voted as the greatest artist of '00s in a BracketMadness poll on VH1.[5] In 2014, the band was declaredas the Biggest Rock Band in the World Right Now byKerrang.[6][7] In 2015 “Kerrang!", gave In the End andFinal Masquerade the top two positions on Kerrang!'srock 100 list.[166]

Linkin Park became the first rock band to achieve morethan one billion YouTube hits.[167] Linkin Park also be-came the fifteenth most liked page on Facebook, tenth

most liked artist after Beyonce and most liked group fol-lowed by Black Eyed Peas.[168] Linkin Park’s "Numb" isthe third and "In The End" is the sixth “timeless song” on"Spotify". The two songs making Linkin Park the onlyartist to have two timeless songs in top ten.[169]

Hybrid Theory by the group is listed in the book 1001 Al-bums You Must Hear Before You Die, It was also rankedat #11 on Billboard's Hot 200 Albums of the Decade.[170]In addition the album was included in Best of 2001 byRecord Collector, The top 150 Albums of the Generationby Rock Sound and 50 BEST ROCK ALBUMS OF THE2000′S by Kerrang!. The albumMeteora was included inTop 200 Albums of the Decade by Billboard at #36. Thealbum sold 20 million copies worldwide. The collabo-rated EP Collision Course with Jay-Z, became the secondever EP to top the Billboard 200, going on to sell over300,000 copies in its first week after Alice in Chains' Jarof Flies in 1994. The album Minutes to Midnight in theUnited States, the album had the biggest first week salesof 2007 at the time, with 625,000 albums sold.[171] InCanada, the album sold over 50,000 copies in its firstweek and debuted at number one on the Canadian Al-bums Chart. Worldwide, the album shipped over 3.3 mil-lion copies in its first four weeks of release.[172]

The band also sets the milestone to have 5 consecutivereleases to debut on number one on the Billboard 200charts, tied with DMX, Kanye West, Madonna, Paul Mc-Cartney and Wings, Beyoncé and U2. The band also setsthe milestone of having 4 consecutive studio album re-leases to debut on the top position after Eminem. Thesong What I've Done is the most successful song by thegroup with 3.6 million sales followed by New Divide with2.7 million and In The End with 2.5 million sales.Theband has got a total of 177 Nominations and 61 awardsto date, which includes 2 Grammy Awards.Several rock and non-rock artists have cited Linkin Parkas an influence, including Of Mice & Men,[173] BishopNehru,[174] Misono, Evanescence,[175] Josh Devine“drummer of” One Direction,[176] Bring Me the Horizon,Hoobastank, Red, Girl on Fire, Manafest, Silentó,[177]Tony Dougard,[178] 3oh!3,[179] Hollywood Undead,[179]The Prom Kings,[179] Kevin Rudolf,[179] Tokio Hotel[179]and Emery. In addition, many contemporary legendarypioneers have stated positive views about the band,such as Jonathan Davis, Steve Aoki, Jay-Z, Metallica,Deftones, Limp Bizkit, Michael Bay,[180] Hans Zimmer,Steve Jablonsky, Pandora,[181] Rakim[182] and Styles ofBeyond. Prince William stated the band as his all-timefavorite along with Coldplay.[183]

5 Band members

Main article: List of Linkin Park band members

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5.1 Timeline

6 Discography

Main articles: Linkin Park discography and List of songsrecorded by Linkin Park

• Hybrid Theory (2000)

• Meteora (2003)

• Minutes to Midnight (2007)

• A Thousand Suns (2010)

• Living Things (2012)

• The Hunting Party (2014)

7 See also• List of best-selling albums

• List of best-selling albums in the United States

• List of songs recorded by Linkin Park

• Music for Relief, a charity founded by the band.

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8.1 Literature

• Saulmon, Greg. Linkin Park. Contemporary Mu-sicians and Their Music. New York: Rosen Pub.Group, 2007. ISBN 1-4042-0713-9.

• Baltin, Steve. From The Inside: Linkin Park’s Me-teora. California: Bradson Press, 2004. ISBN 0-9603574-1-6.

9 External links• Official website

• Official YouTube channel

14 10 TEXT AND IMAGE SOURCES, CONTRIBUTORS, AND LICENSES

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10.1 Text• Linkin Park Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkin_Park?oldid=684481952 Contributors: Magnus Manske, Loffe, Jzcool, Dze27,

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